Chapter 33 Opponents that need attention (guarantee
Although Wu Lei has been reduced to a substitute in Lazio, he is still the main core in the Chinese national team. Who taught him that he is the most experienced in the current national team?
At twenty-nine years old, he is still in his prime.
Although he can't be the main player in Lazio, if he is willing to leave Lazio and go to any other team, he might be the main player.
He is still the highest level player in Asia.
It is normal for such players to be the main core and captain of the Chinese national team.
When Wu Lei first came to Lazio, he was still a young man of 20 years old.
After spending ten years at Lazio, he has become the most successful player in Chinese football in Europe. He was also the first Chinese player to win the European Champions League.
This kind of status gives him a high status in Chinese football.
Although Ji Ming has better potential than Wu Lei, he is still too young and is far behind in terms of experience.
But everyone also thinks that he will be the core of the Chinese team in the next ten years after Wu Lei.
This is really a good process.
The Chinese team always has a core and will never fall into a leaderless situation.
Wu Lei has been the core of the Chinese national team for ten years, leading the team to the runner-up in the Asian Cup.
This is mainly because except for Wu Lei, the level of other Chinese players is very different.
Moreover, at that time, the "Star Project" company had just started in China, and the Chinese football environment had changed too little from before.
But it's different now.
More and more Chinese players are active in leagues at all levels in European countries, and they are the cornerstone of Chinese football.
The level of Chinese players today is much better than that of Wu Lei, and the number of registered Chinese players has also increased rapidly.
The success and struggle of these Chinese overseas players abroad have also ignited the fighting spirit of more people to pursue their football dreams.
So more and more kids are becoming players.
Now there are many high-level and talented players around Ji Ming, most of whom are playing in European leagues.
With the same background of playing in European leagues, it is not difficult for them to understand each other. They also have a common understanding of football, and their cooperation on the court has become more and more tacit.
So now the Chinese team finally hopes to reach the World Cup finals, which is normal.
Even if Wu Lei declines in the future, the Chinese team will still have Ji Ming.
What about after Ji Ming?
Everyone has set their sights on Chang Sheng.
It’s not that I hope Chang Sheng will dig up a young Chinese player to train at Lazio.
It's because the hope for the future of Chinese football lies in Chang Sheng, strictly speaking, in Chang Sheng's home.
Chang Sheng's son, Chang Wei, is only twelve years old this year, but he has already fully demonstrated his football talent.
In the future when Ji Ming gets older, Chang Wei will be born.
No matter where his father goes in the future, I believe Chang Wei will have a bright future under his father's guidance.
By then, the core of Chinese football in the next decade will definitely be Chang Wei.
Starting from Wu Lei, the thirty years of Chinese football have been inseparable from winning.
In China, there is even such a voice.
After Chang Sheng and Lazio broke up, the Chinese Football Association could actually invite Chang Sheng to coach the Chinese national team.
However, Chang Sheng did not respond to such a voice.
Maybe he is waiting for his son to grow up...
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The first league game after the national team match day was the ninth round of the league, when Lazio challenged Atalanta away from home.
This game was affected by the national team match day, and Lazio's players looked very tired.
So in the end, Lazio tied with Atalanta 1:1 in the away game.
This is Lazio's first draw this season.
Although they didn't win, Lazio's ranking rose.
They suddenly rose from the third place in the league to the first place in the league!
Because in the same round of the league, top-ranked Napoli and Juventus both lost.
Naples lost to Roma 0:2 away from home, and Juventus lost to Fiorentina 2:4 away from home.
In this way, the three teams have 19 points, but Lazio has an advantage in the number of goals scored, the number of goals conceded and the goal difference, so Lazio surpassed Napoli and Juventus with the advantage of goal difference.
Ranked first!
In fact, Chang Sheng doesn't have high hopes for this game. His focus is on the Champions League group stage next week.
In the end, the team tied with Atlanta, and he didn't feel dissatisfied.
Unexpectedly, Napoli and Juventus both lost, but Lazio ranked first in the league.
This is an unexpected surprise.
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There is a reason why Chang Sheng attaches great importance to the Champions League group stage.
In the middle of next week, Lazio will face Nottingham Forest, the fourth-tier team in this group, at home.
There have been two rounds of the group stage, and Lazio ranks first in the group with six points.
So the second ranked player is neither Real Madrid nor Dortmund.
But Nottingham Forest!
Such a team, which has only returned to the Champions League after 40 years, is worthy of being the biggest dark horse in the Champions League this season.
In this death group with so many strong players, they remain undefeated like Lazio!
Lazio has won two games in a row, while Nottingham Forest has drawn two games in a row.
Against Dortmund, they were tied, and against Real Madrid, they were also tied.
The result of both games was the same - 0:0.
Nottingham Forest didn't score a goal, but they didn't concede a goal either.
You must know that the three strong teams in this group are all good at attacking. Not to mention Lazio, Real Madrid and Dortmund are both teams that play offensive football, and their offensive power is very terrifying.
Even Lazio conceded one goal in two games when facing them.
Only Nottingham Forest failed to concede a goal against them!
Nottingham Forest, which has received two draws, currently ranks second in the group with two points.
Real Madrid and Dortmund both had one draw and one loss, and only accumulated one point.
Moreover, the mighty Spanish super giant Real Madrid is still ranked last in this group.
Because there were no goals and the number of goals scored was one less than Dortmund, which had one goal, Real Madrid ranked fourth in this group, which is also the last place...
It is said that after the draw against Nottingham Forest, Benitez was given an ultimatum by Real Madrid club executives.
If he still can't win in the Champions League group stage, he will get out of class.
So this game against Dortmund will be a battle of life and death for him.
Fortunately, he was playing at home, otherwise it would have been even more dangerous.
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The above are the reasons why Chang Sheng pays attention to this game.
The previous two games proved that Nottingham Forest is definitely a very difficult team to deal with.
Because their defense is so good...
Being able to not concede a single goal against Real Madrid and Dortmund is indeed very impressive.
Let's not talk about Dortmund. In the first game against Nottingham Forest, Dortmund may have been a little proud and underestimated the opponent, and they were not fully prepared.
But Real Madrid is different. They lost to Lazio in their first group match, so they are eager to win and will definitely attack with all their strength in the second game.
In fact, this is also true.
Real Madrid bombarded the away team for 90 minutes, but failed to score...
After Lazio achieved great success by relying on offensive football, more and more teams have also raised the banner of offensive football.
For a time, offense became the mainstream trend in European football.
The team that defended with all its strength was criticized by public opinion.
Therefore, a team like Nottingham Forest seems very strange in today's environment.
They relied on these two games to score two points and ranked second in the group.
There are already such voices. Some media said that if such a team breaks into the top 16 of the Champions League, it will definitely be an insult to the Champions League, the highest level football competition in the world...
The game against Nottingham Forest will also be a very difficult task for Lazio's offense.
Chang Sheng and the coaching staff have carefully studied the Nottingham Forest game video and found that this is actually not a team that can only defend. They also have their own uniqueness in offense, but overall, their overall style
It is indeed a defensive counterattack.
Solid defense and sharp counterattack, these eight words can well summarize the characteristics of this team.
Under the leadership of their coach Tony Twain, Nottingham Forest played a kind of football that was incompatible with this era. With this kind of football, they qualified for the Champions League. With this kind of football, they eliminated Lyon and entered the Champions League.
With this kind of football, they are currently undefeated and ranked second in the group.
The defensive tactics of Twain's team during the game were called "wall defense" by the English media, which means that their defense was like a wall.
Others insisted on parking a bus in front of the goal. Instead, they built a wall directly in the penalty area and completely sealed the goal!
Many teams are helpless against their defense.
Then during a massive attack, the defense was unknowingly empty.
At this time, Nottingham Forest launched a fierce counterattack, which was very efficient and could end the game in one counterattack.
This is how Lyon died in the Champions League qualifying round.
After losing 0:3 in the away game to Lyon, Lyon returned to home and planned to use offense to defeat the opponent.
Not long after the game started, they did score a goal and tied the total score to 1:3, so there was only two goals left.
Lyon's morale was greatly boosted, and he attacked even harder, turning a blind eye to the defensive space behind him.
In this way, Lyon bombarded the Forest team at home, and ended up conceding four goals.
Nottingham Forest's four goals were all scored through defensive counterattacks.
Lyon soon discovered that they had made a mistake, but they had no better choice than attacking. Of course, if they attack, they will concede more goals, but if they defend, the current score is enough to kill them.
Already.
In the end, Nottingham Forest scored four goals in one breath, completely locking their place in the main draw.
In the end, Nottingham Forest defeated Lyon 4:1 in the away game and eliminated Lyon with a total score of 7:1.
How to break through the dense defense of Nottingham Forest will be a problem for the entire Lazio team. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
